The recently retired celebrity stylist and revered image architect Law Roachaddressed the actress' statementsin an interview withNew York Magazine’s The Cut.
AfterChopra Jonasopened up about working with a stylist (whom she did not name) who made her cry over not being “sample sized,” Roach, 44, said it was “a little bit hurtful” reading that in the press as she appeared to be talking about theOscars event he styled her forthe previous night.
“I’ve been told many things that are difficult to hear. In my job, the pressure is so intense, you can’t really show the chinks in your armor,” she shared. “Someone told me yesterday that I wasn’t sample-sized… I was hurt and I discussed it with my family, and I cried to my husband [Nick Jonas], and my team, and I felt really bad about the fact that I’m not sample size, and that’s a problem, apparently, and most of us are not, and sample size is size 2.”
Roach disputed the story “because that wasn’t the real conversation.”
Priyanka Chopra Jonas.Unique Nicole/Getty
“I’venever had that conversationwith her, ever,” he told The Cut. “So again, it is her gatekeepers, how they presented what I said to her to make her feel that way. And if that made her feel bad, that wasn’t — it was taken out of context.
“But I’m sure it was taken outta context to get her to be like, ‘Oh, okay, I’m not working with him no more. He’s insensitive to my body.’ Which I’m like, ‘How is that possible? I’ve been dressing you for literally pre-pandemic, and it’s been nothing but great things,’ " added Roach.
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Law Roach and Priyanka Chopra.Marc Piasecki/WireImage; Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images
“I think sometimes what it is with them is that they have an agenda and I need to be the bad guy because I’m the one who’s dealing with the clothes and the body,” said Roach, who recently won the CFDA award for best stylist.
“I need to be the one who says, you know — and I’m not talking about her. I’m just talking about in general — I need to be the one to say, ‘Oh, you know, be careful because, you know, the pictures aren’t as beautiful because you coming across, you know, a little thicker than you used to be.’ It is, like, so they’ll say that to me or have a discussion with me but then take it back as if I was the lead in the discussion. And I’m not saying that’s exactly what happened, but that’s what feels like happened to me,” Roach added.
“She has a twinkle, she has a wiggle, and Iloveher, like, even as a person,” Roach added.
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After heannounced his retirementlast week in a since-deleted Instagram post, Roach told PEOPLE in a statement that he’s taking “some time to step away” from the job and “focus on myself for the first time in nearly a decade.”
“For me, fashion has always been a love, not a job. I’ve spent so much time and energy nurturing this love, and it has become my way of communicating with the world,” explained Roach, noting that he doesn’t “plan to walk away from it entirely.”
Roach — who has styled memorable looks forZendaya,Céline Dion,Mary J. Blige,Ariana Grandeand many others — previously shared the news on social media. “My Cup is empty,” he stated in the post.
source: people.com
